Educational strip-holder



Oct. 13, 1931.

W. H. HOLMES EDUCATIONAL STRIP HOLDER Filed lay 15. 1928 WITNESSES INVENTOR W lflolnwd' BY W ATTORN EY Patented Oct.13, 1931 1,826,934

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Application filed May 15, 1928. Serial No. 277,983.

The present invention is concerned with suitable material. The plate may be of any the provision of a holder which may have a desired proportions, and ispreferably slitted I widerange of usefulness, but which is priand punched to provide a plurality of longimarily intended and peculiarly adapted for tudinally ezitending series of upwardly pro holding strips or sheets of printed matter. jccting tongues ll'which tongues are slightly '55 It is especially suitable for temporarily supforwardly offset from the plane of the plate porting in various positions of adjustment and may be of the generally semi-circular the endless educational strips disclosed in shape illustrated. The corresponding my prior United States Letters Patent No. tongues of adjacent series are preferably 1,678,621, issued July 24, 1928. which strips spaced'equal' distances from the top and hot 60 are reversible and bear printed data on one tom of the plate and from each other. face and corresponding graphic indicia on The transverse rows of tongues formed by the other face. the corresponding tongues of each longitudi- In my prior patent above referred to varinal'series may conveniently support educaous types of holders are disclosed for mounttional strips suchas the strips 12. The strips ing the strips, the present invention repreforming part oft-he'present invention'were enting an improvement over such holders described in my prior patentand comprise being characterized by the following adendless accordion folded strips, the fold detages. fined spaces of which bear corresponding it may be conveniently handled by a child graphic and written indicia on opposite sides. 70 even of the kindergarten age, the insertion, I "With the form of the invention shown, removal, replacement, and adjustment of three series of tongues are used and the plate strips or other indicia bearing members be- 10 is of a widthequal to slightly less than ing a very simple operation. half the length of strips lfz, so that these It is light in weight and made of some strips may be unfolded as far as possible '7 such material as heavy cardboard or the like, and displayed on the plate. To effect such so that a class of children many manipulate display, the strips may be slipped over the the holder on wooden desks without undue tongues 11 as illustrzned. slipped behind the noise and distraction. tongues or looped over the plate completely 3 It serves as a convenient permanent holdembracing the plate and having the lower or to prevent loss of the strips and sheets edges of their forward rims confined behind when the latter are IIOD being used. 3, transverse row of tongues,

It is of simple, practical construction, rug- With t or or Strip dis osed as in Fig. ged and durable in use, and well suited to 2 th t i t li d r tw adjacent and van

the requirements of economical manufacture. transverse TOWS f ngu S th f n h lf f '85 \Yith the above noted and other objects each Strip is exposed By arranging. the m vlgwvthe mventlon (ionslsts m certain nlwel tongues of each longitudinal series at a disfeatures of construcmon and cqmbmatlons tan ce apart equal approximately to the width and arrangements of parts as w} 11 be mom of a single strip 12, two adjacent strips are 40 g g gi 2 F quite close together and ready comparison of 0 b 1e {1e 1m en Ion mwy 6 moley the twostrips may be had. The manner in understood IIOIII the following deserlptlon 1 th a q t y 1 I a in connection with the accompanying draw- W 0 a 3 g, h1g3 wherein read1ng, etc., by comparlson of grap 10 an I Fig 1 is a plan View of the written mdicia, will beself-evldent. r

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary view similar to I clesn'eda P f qownwardly 139mg Fi 1,, b t. h i g th manner f use f tongues 13 may beprovided above the tongues the holder. 12 between the center series of tongues and The holder includes a fairly stiff sheet the outer series, tongues 13cooperating with or plate 10 of cardboard, fibre-board, or other correspondingly situated upwardly facing x00 ttlmgues 14 adjacent the bottom edge of the ate. p Preferably, a pair of longitudinally extending slots 16 are formed in the plate, these 5 slots defining a resilient central strap portion 17 under which the folded strips 12, etc., may be held while not in use to revent such slips from becoming lost or misp aced, and to rmit a series of holders to be stacked or handled with the strips firmly secured within t em. 4 It is to be understood that the holder ma be made of transparent material, such as ce luloid, so that the intelligence matter appearing on the opposite sides of each strip 12 may be viewed, while positioned as shown in Figure 2, by merely turning the holder around to present the obverse and reverse sides of the holder, and therefore, the strip. a 7 Various changes and alterations might be made in the general form and arrangement of the parts described without departing from the Invention. Hence I do not wish to limit myself to the details set forth, but shall consider myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fairly fall Within the spirit and scope of the appended claim.

Iclaim: e r r y A holder of the class described comprisin a a plate, a plurality of spaced lon 'itudina of tongues struck from the plate and l in substantially parallel relation with an forwardly offset from the plate, said plate having a pair of longitudinal arallel 6 slots 7 therein between the series de ning a flexible strap between them.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York this 14th day of May, 1928. u l WILLIAM HENRY HOLMES. 

